My list of all-time favorite songs is now roughly organized to the top 250. Already on its way to 300+, though.
1 Jefferson Starship, "Miracles"
2 Grass Roots, "I'd Wait a Million Years"
3 Lighthouse, "Pretty Lady"
4 Todd Rundgren, "I Saw the Light"
5 Nina Simone, "Wild Is the Wind"
6 The Turtles, "She's My Girl"
7 Billy Stewart, "Summertime"
8 Stevie Wonder, "Another Star"
9 The Beatles, "Penny Lane"
10 The Mamas & the Papas, "California Dreaming"
11 Lighthouse, "One Fine Morning"
12 John Lennon, "#9 Dream"
13 Culture Club, "Time (Clock of the Heart)"
14 Aretha Franklin, "Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Baby)"
15 Rod Stewart, "You're in My Heart (The Final Acclaim)"
16 Stevie Wonder, "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing"
17 Orpheus, "Can't Find the Time"
18 Barenaked Ladies, "Jane"
19 War, "Galaxy"
20 Barry Manilow, "Daybreak"
21 Marty Balin, "Hearts"
22 Grand Funk Railroad, "Bad Time"
23 Lesley Gore, "California Nights"
24 George Harrison, "My Sweet Lord"
25 Joni Mitchell, "Coyote"
26 Los Pop Tops, "Mamy Blue"
27 Nuclear Valdez, "Summer"
28 English Congregation, "Softly Whispering I Love You"
29 Flaming Ember, "Mind, Body and Soul"
30 Beach Boys, "God Only Knows"
31 Norman Connors, "You Are My Starship"
32 Gladys Knight & the Pips, "I Don't Want to Do Wrong"
33 Stevie Wonder, "As"
34 Sade, "Sweetest Taboo"
35 Jefferson Starship, "There Will Be Love"
36 The Beatles, "Only a Northern Song"
37 The Monkees, "Daily Nightly"
38 Air Supply, "Even the Nights Are Better"
39 Wilco and Billy Bragg, "California Stars"
40 The Supremes, "You Keep Me Hanging On"
41 JoBoxers, "Just Got Lucky"
42 ABBA, "The Winner Takes It All"
43 Captain & Tennille, "Love Will Keep Us Together"
44 The Supremes, "I Hear a Symphony"
45 Elton John, "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
46 The Monkees, "Randy Scouse Git"
47 Tears for Fears, "Sowing the Seeds of Love"
48 The Turtles, "Happy Together"
49 The Beatles, "Your Mother Should Know"
50 Player, "Baby Come Back"
51 Spinners, "(They Just Can't Stop It The) Games People Play"
52 Sly & the Family Stone, "If You Want Me to Stay"
53 Pulp, "Common People"
54 The Turtles, "Love in the City"
55 Sly & the Family Stone, "Somebody's Watching You"
56 Jellyfish, "Baby's Comin' Back"
57 The Turtles, "Goodbye Surprise"
58 Four Tops, "Bernadette"
59 Three Dog Night, "I'd Be So Happy"
60 David Bowie, "Stay"
61 Sonny and Cher, "Living for You"
62 Marvin Gaye, "I Want You"
63 Maxine Nightingale, "Right Back Where We Started From"
64 Lovin' Spoonful, "Summer in the City"
65 Bobby Sherman, "Easy Come, Easy Go"
66 Nina Simone, "Do What You Gotta Do"
67 Kantner/Slick/Freiberg, "Harp Tree Lament"
68 War, "Why Can't We Be Friends?"
69 Liz Phair, "Supernova"
70 George Harrison, "What Is Life"
71 Stevie Wonder, "I Was Made to Love Her"
72 George Michael, "Cowboys and Angels"
73 Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes, "Without Love"
74 The Temptations, "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)"
75 The Miracles, "Come 'Round Here (I'm the One You Need)"
76 The Mamas & the Papas, "Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon)"
77 The Monkees, "You and I"
78 5th Dimenson, "Aquarius / Let the Sun Shine In"
79 Dells, "There Is"
80 Wilco, "Nothingsevergonnastandinmywayagain"
81 Gladys Knight & the Pips, "If I Were Your Woman"
82 Curtis Mayfield, "Move On Up"
83 Four Tops with the Moody Blues, "A Simple Game"
84 Stevie Nicks, "Edge of Seventeen"
85 The Monkees, "Daydream Believer"
86 The Supremes, "Forever Came Today"
87 The Montanas, "You've Got to Be Loved"
88 Sophie B. Hawkins, "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover"
89 Three Dog Night, "Eli's Coming"
90 Earth, Wind & Fire, "Fantasy"
91 Elton John, "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters"
92 Jefferson Starship, "Hyperdrive"
93 Sly & the Family Stone, "Thank You (Falletinme Be Mice Elf Agin)"
94 Kiki Dee Band, "I've Got the Music in Me"
95 Terence Trent D'Arby, "Sign Your Name"
96 Beginning of the End, "Funky Nassau"
97 The Doors, "Shaman's Blues"
98 Dionne Warwick, "Anyone Who Had a Heart"
99 Wild Weeds, "No Good to Cry"
100 Aretha Franklin, "Call Me"
101 The Supremes, "Up the Ladder to the Roof"
102 Procol Harum, "Conquistador"
103 Gloria Gaynor, "Reach Out, I'll Be There"
104 Charlatans UK, "The Only One I Know"
105 The Doors, "My Eyes Have Seen You"
106 The Beatles, "Strawberry Fields Forever"
107 Sonique, "It Feels So Good"
108 Shannon, "Let the Music Play"
109 Dusty Springfield, "I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten"
110 Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds, "Fallin' in Love"
111 The Supremes, "Stoned Love"
112 Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, "A Taste of Honey"
113 David Ruffin, "Walk Away From Love"
114 Barry Manilow, "Ready to Take a Chance Again"
115 Hellogoodbye, "Baby It's Fact"
116 Steve Winwood, "While You See a Chance"
117 Roberta Flack, "Killing Me Softly With His Song"
118 Air Supply, "The One That You Love"
119 David Ruffin, "My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me)"
120 John Lennon, "(Just Like) Starting Over"
121 Sweet Sensation, "Sad Sweet Dreamer"
122 The Flirtations, "Nothing But a Heartache"
123 Jefferson Starship, "All Fly Away"
124 Bran Van 3000 f/ Curtis Mayfield, "Astounded"
125 Love, "You Set the Scene"
126 Connells, "'74-'75"
127 Four Tops, "Love Music"
128 Alice Cooper, "You and Me"
129 Edwin Starr, "My Sweet Lord"
130 Dionne Warwick, "Walk On By"
131 David Bowie, "Wild Is the Wind"
132 Lou Christie, "Lightning Strikes"
133 Amen Corner, "(If Paradise Is) Half as Nice"
134 Neil Sedaka, "Laughter in the Rain"
135 De La Soul, "A Roller Skating Jam Named 'Saturdays'"
136 Barry Manilow, "Could It Be Magic"
137 Robbie Williams, "Karma Killer"
138 Chris Rea, "Fool (If You Think It's Over)"
139 Gladys Knight & the Pips, "I've Got to Use My Imagination"
140 Leon Haywood, "I Want'a Do Something Freaky to You"
141 The Turtles, "Elenore"
142 Benny Mardones, "Into the Night"
143 Paul Mauriat, "Love Is Blue"
144 Flamin' Groovies, "Shake Some Action"
145 King Harvest, "Dancing in the Moonlight"
146 Gnarls Barkley, "Crazy"
147 Carole King, "Avenue P"
148 The Beatles, "Good Day Sunshine"
149 Donovan, "Wear Your Love Like Heaven"
150 Amerie, "1 Thing"
151 The Addrisi Brothers, "Nanny and the Professor"
152 Jim Croce, "I Got a Name"
153 Sly & the Family Stone, "I Want to Take You Higher"
154 B.J. Thomas, "(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song"
155 Kenny Loggins and Stevie Nicks, "Whenever I Call You 'Friend'"
156 Moody Blues, "Isn't Life Strange"
157 Dusty Springfield, "This Girl's in Love With You"
158 Grass Roots, "The River Is Wide"
159 The Marmalade, "Reflections of My Life"
160 Marvin Gaye, "You"
161 Looking Glass, "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)"
162 Spiral Starecase, "More Today Than Yesterday"
163 Dave Matthews Band, "Dancing Nancies"
164 Wings, "Silly Love Songs"
165 George Michael, "Praying for Time"
166 Sheena Easton, "Morning Train (Nine to Five)"
167 The Four Seasons, "C'mon Marianne"
168 Simon & Garfunkel, "My Little Town"
169 Petula Clark, "Downtown"
170 Queen, "You're My Best Friend"
171 Wilco, "Jesus Etc."
172 Three Dog Night, "An Old-Fashioned Love Song"
173 Barbra Streisand, "Woman in Love"
174 Bangles, "Hazy Shade of Winter"
175 Joni Mitchell, "River"
176 The Monkees, "As We Go Along"
177 Joe Jackson, "Steppin' Out"
178 Spinners, "I'll Be Around"
179 The Beatles, "Eleanor Rigby"
180 Rolling Stones, "Gimme Shelter"
181 Andy Gibb, "Everlasting Love"
182 Robert Palmer, "You Overwhelm Me"
183 The Partridge Family, "Summer Days"
184 Wham!, "Freedom"
185 Jefferson Airplane, "The Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil"
186 Elton John, "Where to Now, St. Peter?"
187 Dexys Midnight Runners, "Come On Eileen"
188 Culture Club, "Church of the Poison Mind"
189 Bo Donaldson and the Haywoods, "Who Do You Think You Are?"
190 Vanity Fare, "Early in the Morning"
191 Pulp, "Disco 2000"
192 Charlie Rich, "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World"
193 Dandy Warhols, "You Were the Last High"
194 Deee-Lite, "Groove Is in the Heart"
195 The Mamas & the Papas, "Glad to Be Unhappy"
196 Neneh Cherry, "Buffalo Stance"
197 The Beatles, "We Can Work It Out"
198 Pet Shop Boys, "Always on My Mind"
199 Christopher Cross, "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)"
200 Joni Mitchell, "Court and Spark"
201 George Harrison, "You"
202 Parliamets, "I Wanna Testify"
203 Monkees, "Carlisle Wheeling"
204 Left Banke, "Walk Away Renee"
205 Box Tops, "Neon Rainbow"
206 Bocephus King, "Wreck of the Century"
207 Indigo Girls, "Language or the Kiss"
208 Concrete Blonde, "Joey"
209 Odyssey, "Native New Yorker"
210 Peter Criss, "You Matter to Me"
211 Jefferson Starship, "St. Charles"
212 Sade, "Never As Good As the First Time"
213 Culture Club, "Victims"
214 Orpheus, "Walk Away Renee"
215 Left Banke, "And Suddenly"
216 Grass Roots, "Midnight Confession"
217 Gladys Knight & the Pips, "Let It Be"
218 Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman. "Stumblin' In"
219 Waterboys, "Fisherman's Blues"
220 The Doors, "Love Street"
221 The Temptations, "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone"
222 Godspell, "Day by Day"
223 Stories, "Mamy Blue"
224 The Monkees, "Sometime in the Morning"
225 Jake Holmes, "So Close"
226 Electric Indian, "Keem-O-Sabe"
227 Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson, "Say Say Say"
228 Love Unlimited, "Walking in the Rain With the One I Love"
229 Tommy James and the Shondells, "Get Out Now"
230 Stevie Wonder, "I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)"
231 Adam Ant, "Desperate But Not Serious"
232 Paul Revere & the Raiders, "Let Me"
233 Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds, "Winners and Losers"
234 Glen Campbell, "Wichita Lineman"
235 Jefferson Starship, "Count on Me"
236 Roachford, "Cuddly Toy (Feel for Me)"
237 Curtis Mayfield, "If There's a Hell Below (We're All Gonna Go)"
238 Little Anthony and the Imperials, "Hurt So Bad"
239 Adam Ant, "Goody Two Shoes"
240 R.E.M., "Texarkana"
241 Billy Joel, "Pressure"
242 Robbie Williams, "The Road to Mandalay"
243 Elvis Presley, "Suspicious Minds"
244 Roberta Flack, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"
245 Little Anthony and the Imperials, "Goin' Out of My Head"
246 Three Dog Night, "It's for You"
247 American Breed, "Bend Me Shape Me"
248 Foreigner, "Cold As Ice"
249 Waterboys, "The Whole of the Moon"
250 Aztec Two-Step, "The Persecution and Resurrection of Dean Moriarty"
